North Macedonia plans to buy 3 million tonnes of lignite from Kosovo to feed its coal-fired plants as a lack of domestic production and soaring energy prices in Europe leave it facing an energy crisis, the country’s economy minister said on Friday.
Panathinaikos scored an essential victory over Alba Berlin in Athens, its fourth in the Euroleague this season, while Olympiakos returned to road losses going down at Red Star Belgrade.
The successful course of Greek tourism toward 2030 requires a transition from spontaneous to targeted development via substantial and integrated planning, in a context of sustainability, taking into account available resources, targets and emerging trends, according to a study drafted for the Institute of the Greek Tourism Confederation (INSETE).
The Central Bank of Cyprus said it has imposed a fine amounting to 790,000 euros on Bank of Cyprus, the island’s largest lender, over failure to comply with the anti-money laundering law and the CBC directive.
Frontline health workers in the National Health System (ESY) are at their limits for a second consecutive year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
A leading ICU doctor said on Friday that “there is nothing more offensive for a doctor and a nurse than to be accused of choosing one patient over the other,” following allegations that certain patients have been fast-tracked into intensive care.
Thirteen people, most of them sales representatives and executives of a pharmaceutical company, have been arrested on suspicion of bribing doctors and illegally prescribing medicines, it was reported on Friday.
Albania has sheltered a total of 2,250 Afghan evacuees in hotels and resorts around the Balkan nation. They have been told they will have to stay there for about a year until US authorities finish processing their special immigration visas.
Olaf Scholz, Germany’s newly appointed chancellor, said on Friday that he appreciates that Greece is experiencing growth and recovery.
US President Joe Biden’s virtual Summit for Democracy, which began Thursday and ends Friday, seeks to unite democratic countries and forces in the face of this new world’s dangers.